Kaelic burns, stabs, and burns the bear again!
Juma misses the bear as it stands, finds his staff useless while in the bear's grasp, throws it down, and reverses the bear's hug. Using the bear's weight against it in the style of Tien martial artists, Juma flops the bear over and pulls its arm behind its head!
Apparently dying of embarrassment, the bear cease to move, then disappears with a poof!
"You wrestled that dying bear like a champ! Bravo!" Kaelic pauses. "Okay, that was pretty good, but I had to do your job while you were going all chest-to-chest there. You're welcome."
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Searching the room, the party finds a chest that Kaelic unlocks to find about 3,200 gp in coin and gemstones. Also the is a scrap of paper on the nightstand that appears to have bawdy limricks written on it. The armoires and wardrobes store rich clothing worth a total of 850 gp. Sitting on the writing desk is a gold ring set with a fat black pearl worth 1,350 gp.
Kaelic detects magic from the scrap of paper and eventually deduces that is is some sort of secret page.
"Well there's some kind of secret message hidden here, but I don't have the magic to read it. Best not try either, unless you're fond of curses and such. Now Juma, carry my gold!" Kaelic concludes before taking a brief look around. "That's all up here, right? To the basement?"
Heading up the spiral stairs, you enter a glass domed chamber. Within this glass-domed chamber is an enormous telescope that sits upon a platform over a veritable sea of metal gears. An angled metal chair sits below the device, within reach of a cluster of pedals and levers that enable its occupant to perform adjustments to the telescope’s orientation. Tables covered in books and charts occupy the southeast corner. The view of the surrounding skies afforded by the glass dome is breathtaking in its expanse.
Detecting for magic, Kaelic notices an aura behind the party. Looking, you see a 1-foot-wide ledge runs around the edge of the dome. Sitting on the southwest portion of this lip is a creature that looks like an obese infant, but with leathery skin mottled with spots of grime, curling ram’s horns, sharp blackened teeth, and black eyes with no pupils.
It merely grins wickedly at the party.
Juma dutifully continues with the inventory ledger.
"...and one deathbaby."
Looking up, he adds, "Excuse me, what's the best term to identify you? Just give me any sort of title to write down and we'll be out of your hair."
"I think you have it right." Kaelic mutters as he stands up on his toes to peer at the ledger. "D-E-A-T-H-B..." he glances back up at the creature. "Yep, looks good."
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The deathbaby continues grinning wickedly, and starts making gestures.
"Psst! What's it doing?"
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"I think maybe we're agitating it; we should leave him alone."
"Right. Make a note of that in the inventory. 'Agitated Deathbaby.'"
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"So, down to the basement, then?"
"Sounds good."
As the party ignores the deathbaby, it takes wing and flows to the east, pointing a wand at the party. A lightning boly shoots out of the wand and hits Dagon and Kaelic!
"Juma, hit it!"
"Whoa! Fan out!"
Juma tries to move to where he won't be in a line with his comrades , and chucks a chakram at the deathbaby.
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Dagon dances out of the way of the electric attack, steps to the side, and tries to take the wand out of play.
Juma throws his chakram, hitting the creepy baby!
Dagon casts a spell, greasing up the wand and it shoots out of the baby's hands, falling to the floor!
The creature snarls and swoops toward Dagon, it teeth bared!
Luckily, Dagon throws up an arm and fends off the creautre!
Juma puts his staff away, then does his best to position himself between his allies and the deathbaby, hoping to make himself the target of the next attack. He then takes a couple of quick breaths and prepares to pull the monster out of the sky.
Kaelic throws out a burst of flame from his hands before scuttling back away from the action. "Fire death!"
Dagon steps back, begins singing, and draws out a wand.
Kaelic unleashes a gout of fire at the deathbaby, but it pitches to the side, avoiding much of the flames!
Juma reaches out and grabs the deathbaby, while Dagon begins singing!
The deathbaby snarls and tries to bite and headbutt Juma, but has little luck!
Dagon recognizes the deathbaby as a homunculus, though this seems to be unique in construction. Assuming Hunclay made it, he knows it is likely been driven mad by the wizard's death. These constructs have a poisonous bite, and typical construct traits.
"Watch out! It's poisonous!" Dagon maintains his song, then steps into flanking, draws his dagger, and attacks.
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"I'll hold it, you guys beat it!"
Dagon attacks, but misses the writhing deathbaby!
Juma tightens his hold on the creature and pins its arms and wings together!
Kaelic whips out his weapons and gets stabby.
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Kaelic makes a clumsy stab and connects, injuring the creature!
The deathbaby struggles weakly, but cannot extricate itself from Juma's stranglehold!
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"Hack! Slash! Die!"
Juma flexes his manliness in an attempt to crush the deathbaby.
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Dagon stops singing, and concentrates on stabbing.
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Juma flexes his manliness in an attempt to crush the deathbaby.
[dice=Maintain, if successful he's still pinned and takes damage]1d20+9+1, [dice=Damage]1d3+4+1
Under the vicious assault of the party, the deathbaby is shot, stabbed, and squeezed to death!
Other than the lightning bolt wand, that Kaelic thinks hold another 5 charges, there is nothing of of interest on the deadbaby.
In addition to 50 rare star charts that focus on strangely empty-looking swaths of the night sky, lying on the tables are an exquisite platinum astrolabe, six rare astronomy tomes of aged Taldan pedigree, and two expensive handheld telescopes. In all, this stargazing gear is worth 5,000 gp.
Kaelic uses Dagon's wand and casts a spell on himself.
"Well, I'm feeling better. Downstairs then?"
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None of us can use the lightning bolt wand, or else I'd be behind your plan 100%
None of us can use the lightning bolt wand, or else I'd be behind your plan 100%
the deadbaby.
Juma stands around waiting for his companions to finish whining about their boo-boos, then finally asks, "Are you guys ready to move on yet?"
"Now that I've scrubbed off all the charred flesh, yeah."
"You could have been gentler about it. I'm all raw now. But yeah, I'm ready too."
Descending the stairs to the lower level, you enter three interconnected rooms cluttered with dozens of stacked crates and chests containing only mundane household supplies.
A single door stands in the western wall. Opening the door, a corridor runs to the north and south, then both ends turn to the west.